The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-06

AN attempt was made in New York last
week to poison Miss Agnes Herndon, the
actress.
A REVISED estimate of the public debt
reduction for March makes it about S12,-
sos, 600
THE British government has abandoned
its prosecution of Dillon, O'Brien and their
comrades
GENERAL Roswell S. RIPLEY, who di-
rected the attack on Fort Sumter in April,
1861, is dead
THREE cases of Asiatic cholera have been
discovered in Pesth Much alarm prevails
in consequence.
IT is stated positively that the President
will call session of both houses of congress
on October 1st
w. NJ. CLEMENTS OF the Erie has been
appointed general manager of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad.
A MOB of Greeks recently attacked with
stones the residences of American mission
aries in Smyrna.
BY an accident on the Southern Pacific
railroad in Dryden, Texes, the engineer was
scalded to death.
AGAIN the report comes of strong feeling
in Newfoundland favoring annexation to
! the United States.
THE roof of a church at Tossa, in Sicily,
| fell in without warning Sunday, killing and
injuring forty persons.
Ex-LIEUTENANT-GovER REYNOLDS of
Missouri committed suicide by jumping
down an elevator we'll
THE trunk lines and Central Traffic AS
ISOLATION have agreed to abolish commits
| sions on connecting roads.
HALIFAX merchants have crowded $751;
600 worth of fish into the United States
during the last three months.
THE Philadelphia barque Marcus A.
| Davis - has been wrecked at sea, and all but
two of her company persisted.
REV. DIR. RAY PALMER, the author of My
Faith Looks Up to Thee " and other hymns,
died last week at Newark, n. j.
AT Ell Paso, Texas, quarantine has been
| instigated against the cholera. Cholera has
reached the Isthmus of Panama
FIVE men were terribly burned in Erie,
Pa. by boiler explosion, and three of them
will probably die of their injuries.
LAST weeks cold wave was very severe
| in the South, and the strawberry and veget-
able crops in South Carolina were badly
nipped.
A. NJ. STANTON, manager of George X.
| Sistare's Sons bank at Detroit Michigan,
has absconded with between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Mrs. ANGUS CAMERON, wife of ex-United
States Senator Cameron of Wisconsin, at
tempted to drown herself in the river last
| Thursday.
THE stranded steamer Scotia " is still
fast on the southern shore of Long Island, a
severe storm preventing anything being
| done to float her.
IT is clear that New England is free from
| pleuro-pneumonia according to the investi-
cation made by the chief of the bureau of
animal industry.
A MAN named Desjardins in Ontario
slipped into a grand jury panel which had
to pass on bill against himself on charge
of bribing voter.
REPORTS from Tazewell county, Virginia,
say terrific thunder, hail and snow-storm
visited that section. 1t was the most terri
| BILE storm ever known there.
MATTHEW MAssICKs dweling-house at
| Ludlowville, near Ithaca, n. Y, was burned
last week, and Massick and his three child
dren persisted in the flames.
BISMARCK is reported to have said re-
Gently that Alsace and Lorraine shall re-
main incorporated with Germany, and shall
not exist as a neutral territory.
THE report that the Cunard steamer
"Scythia" had gone ashore Saturday even
ing in attempting to enter Boston harbor
proves to have been cruel canard.
JAMES HODGES, who exploded the bomb
| in the Grand Opera-house at San Francisco
during PATHS concert, February 9th, was
found guilty of assault with intent to murder
OWING to the passage of the interstate
bill the Southern Pacific Railroad Company
is dischargng all its baggage masters and
imposing their duties on the eXpress-mes-
| sengers.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN has been picked
up from the sea off Cape May by passing
steamer, having ventured upon a trial trip
to inure himself to the icy waters of the
Hudson.
THERE was violent gale on the New
England coast last Saturday and several
tl,n,r,
Mass, much damage was done to trees and
buildings.
A YOUNG woman was murdered at Rah-
way, n. j., week ago last Friday night, it
is supposed by a tramp. Though 1000 per-
sons have viewed the body it remains I'M
identified.
A LARGE portion of the village of Wood
bridge, n. j., the West Point (Ga.) co tton
mills and the Caswell building at Troy
were among the property destroyed by fire
last week.
S. w. ADRIAN of Minneapolis has laid
claim to a large portion of the city of Du-
luth. valued at ten millions. He says the
land was decided to his father in 1854 by an
Indian chief.
THE editors and proprietors of the Port
land (Maine) Transcript Thursday night cell
ebrated the tiftieth anniversary of the
founding of that paper by supper at the
Preble House.
THE snow blockade on the Intercolonial
railway in Canada was Unprecedented
One train was 100 hours in covering two
miles and the snow-drifts completely COW
cred the telegraph poles.
THE railroads will increase their revenues
from passenger traffic, probably One-eighth
to one-quarter, by the abolition of free
passes, but will have TO pay out more for
newspaper advertising etc,
THE pleuro-pneumonia broke out in Guy
Darrow's herd of cattle at Hebron, n. Y.
The infection came from some western
calves Darrow bought in New York last fall.
He has killed his entire herd.
AT a meeting of the Chicago socialist
party, Matthew Schmidinger declared that
when they had elected their ticket they
would carry fire, bullet and halter to the
doors of palaces erected by plumber"
JOHANN MosT, the anarchist, was dis
charged from the penitentiary on Black
wells Island Friday, upon the completion
of his one years sentence, which was com
muted to ten months for good behavior.
A FAMILY of eleven persons in colored
settlement in Georgia has died, presumably
by poison, within few days. 1t is the sup
been offended by the head of the family.
THE fine hotel Del Monte at Monterey
Cal, was burned Friday night. Among the
guests were Hon. Frederick Billings OF
Woodstock and Hugh Baxter of Rutland
) No lives were lost. The hotel cost S350000
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